Israel’s Journey from Egypt Reviewed
1 Thesearethe journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under thehand of Moses and Aaron.
2 Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of theLord. And thesearetheir journeys according to their starting points:
3 Theydeparted from Rameses inthe first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went outwith boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.
4 For the Egyptians were burying alltheirfirstborn,whom theLordhad killed among them. Alsoon their gods theLordhad executed judgments.
5 Then the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
6 They departed fromSuccoth and camped at Etham, whichison the edge of the wilderness.
7 They moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, whichiseast of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.
8 They departed from before Hahiroth andpassed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.
9 They moved from Marah andcame to Elim. At Elimweretwelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there.
10 They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 They moved from the Red Sea and camped in theWilderness of Sin.
12 They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
13 They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
14 They moved from Alush and camped atRephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15 They departed from Rephidim and camped in theWilderness of Sinai.
16 They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and campedat Kibroth Hattaavah.
17 They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah andcamped at Hazeroth.
18 They departed from Hazeroth and camped atRithmah.
19 They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
20 They departed from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
21 They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22 They journeyed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
23 They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
24 They moved from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
25 They moved from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
26 They moved from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
27 They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah.
28 They moved from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29 They went from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
30 They departed from Hashmonah andcamped at Moseroth.
31 They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
32 They moved fromBene Jaakan andcamped at Hor Hagidgad.
33 They went from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
34 They moved from Jotbathahand camped at Abronah.
35 They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
36 They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in theWilderness of Zin, whichisKadesh.
37 They moved fromKadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom.
38 ThenAaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of theLord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the firstdayof the fifth month.
39 Aaronwasone hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 Nowthe king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
41 So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42 They departed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43 They departed from Punon andcamped at Oboth.
44 They departed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, at the border of Moab.
45 They departed from Ijim and campedat Dibon Gad.
46 They moved from Dibon Gad and camped atAlmon Diblathaim.
47 They moved from Almon Diblathaimand camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 They departed from the mountains of Abarim andcamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan,acrossfromJericho.
49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as theAbel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.
Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan
50 Now theLordspoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan,acrossfromJericho, saying,
51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;
53 you shall dispossesstheinhabitantsofthe land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land topossess.
54 Andyou shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’sinheritanceshall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remainshallbeirritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
56 Moreover it shall bethatI will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”